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Sweet Tooth Personality

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People who have a preference for sweets may also have a sweeter personality.

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" People with a sweet tooth may have a sweeter personality. -- study published in the journal of personality and social psychology finds people who eat chocolate or more likely to volunteer to help those in need. Compared to people who ate crackers or nothing at all. A separate tests found participants with the sweet tooth -- more agreeable and helpful experts say they took measures to control for each participants overall mood of the findings are not a result of someone feeling happy after eating candy. "

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